How I unexpectedly at an old age got the ability to take in new music.

[Ina]

After my formative years as a Hard Rocker came busy years of finding my place in the Swedish society with limited mental resources for any deep dive in new music. It wasn't that easy before internet. But here I am now with a paused life due to long covid. What I have now is time on the sofa with most days disabled with fatigue but with a brain screaming for challenges and distraction. Spotify is very helpful in providing me with all the metal I missed during most of my life. Now on my sofa I made it a thing to find out what I really clicked with in the new music landscape and it landed in melodic death metal. I really like the tracks that has a creativ construction and played by skilled musicians. There is so much work put into each track that every song becomes a piece of art.

I preferably listen to the albums done the last 10 years, I find the music more mature and refined, more to my liking. The guys are more grownups…

My favorites just now: Soilwork, Scar Symmetry, Meshuggah, Periphery, Gojira, Leprous, Polyphia and Mastodon.

Mastodon has been a favorite the last year and their music has unfortunately got a bit boring … I don't like to listen to the same old songs over and over again.

But shit, there are so much to grasp in just the niche of progressiv metal, it will last for the rest of my life. Without long covid I never would have had this new and rich music experience. For that I am thankful.

[FatherAlabaster]

Hey, I've moved this to the General Chat section since you already have an intro thread going. I'm glad you've found a silver lining in your illness through getting back into music. I loved melodeath in the mid 90s when I first heard it, mostly the big names from the Gothenburg scene. I listened to Meshuggah a lot when I was younger too, and got into the Mastodon albums Remission and Leviathan for a while. I don't listen to any of it very much anymore but I still have fondness for some of those albums. 

[Dead1]

Very cool you can still expand your horizons. I  wish I was a bit more open like that but sadly I am too set in my ways.

 

Meshuggah and Mastodon still get regular plays my way even though I only really like one Meshuggah album (Destroy Erase Improve)

[RelentlessOblivion]

It’s cool that you’re able to explore new music, and while I’m not a fan of any of those bands I know a few melodic death, metal bands which might catch your attention, though mostly they come from the late 90s and early 2000s

[Dead1]

1 hour ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

It’s cool that you’re able to explore new music, and while I’m not a fan of any of those bands I know a few melodic death, metal bands which might catch your attention, though mostly they come from the late 90s and early 2000s

1990s were the apex of melodic DM imo.  

[Ina]

21 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Hey, I've moved this to the General Chat section since you already have an intro thread going. I'm glad you've found a silver lining in your illness through getting back into music. I loved melodeath in the mid 90s when I first heard it, mostly the big names from the Gothenburg scene. I listened to Meshuggah a lot when I was younger too, and got into the Mastodon albums Remission and Leviathan for a while. I don't listen to any of it very much anymore but I still have fondness for some of those albums. 

Though I put it outside my intro ... With point to my question where to post my stuff.

Just now, Ina said:

Though I put it outside my intro ... With point to my question where to post my stuff.

How do I edit an already posted item, found a misspelling?

[Ina]

13 hours ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

It’s cool that you’re able to explore new music, and while I’m not a fan of any of those bands I know a few melodic death, metal bands which might catch your attention, though mostly they come from the late 90s and early 2000s

For every week I expand a bit beyond my starting point. What bands where you thinking of?

[FatherAlabaster]

20 minutes ago, Ina said:

Though I put it outside my intro ... With point to my question where to post my stuff.

How do I edit an already posted item, found a misspelling?

Well, like I said, the "what's on your mind" thread is the ongoing repository for general comments. The "introduce yourself" section is for new members to say hi, and "general chat" is typically where stuff like this thread would go. No big deal.

The easiest way to navigate the forum is through the "activity" tab - if you go to "all activity" you'll see everything in chronological order with the newest posts at the top. The actual layout of the forum sections can be confusing, but if you just refresh the new posts it'll be easier to get around. 

The edit function will be up in the top right of your post - press the three dots (...) and it'll open a menu.

[RelentlessOblivion]

5 hours ago, Ina said:

For every week I expand a bit beyond my starting point. What bands where you thinking of?

A Canorous Quintet spring to mind immediately, also probably Arsis up to their third album, Anata through to Conductors Departure, Oracle Moon, by garden of shadows theme like a solid starting point.